EXTRA 2 on Metzora 14:30–31

Side-ring EXTRA · Means and kapparah

Source

The doubled phrase “which his means allow” in 14:30–31, read with the graded-offering tradition in Toras Kohanim.

Core Text

Core Text
מֵאֲשֶׁר תַּשִּׂיג יָדוֹ … אֵת אֲשֶׁר תַּשִּׂיג יָדוֹ — כִּפּוּר אֶחָד לַעָשִׁיר וְלַדַּל; אֵין הָעֹנִי מְעַכֵּב אֶת הַטָּהֳרָה.

English: The doubled “which his means allow” underscores one kapparah for rich and poor; poverty does not delay purification.

Type of Learning

Equal access to purification

What Is Learned

The Torah repeats the means-clause to fix that the poor’s reduced offering still effects full kapparah before Hashem.